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- Delinquent (BREAKpoint 98a) by Megumi Mizutani
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Administrator / Public Relations for GlitchCat. Not actually glitchy, nor a cat. I wrote the rules for this instance.
“Constitutionally incapable of not going hard” — @aescling
“Fedi Cassandra” – @Satsuma
I HAVE EXPERIENCE IN THINGS. YOU CAN JUST @ ME.
I work for a library but I post about Zelda fanfiction.
For the time being, this is mostly a mirror of <https://status.ladys.computer/>. Want to get in touch? E·mail me!
Joined Sep 2021
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@packetcat and like, to be clear, all the worst critics of mastodon? they’re mastodon users. we make fun of other people who go after the software not because they’re critical, but because they haven’t spent enough time here to know where to throw stones. this has always been the case.
same wasn’t true on cohost. people spending time there were nurturing delusion, not honing a critical mindset. and that’s partially because unlike mastodon, on cohost there was absolutely nothing you could do to make things better. the ship was doomed.
@packetcat the thing that tempers my sympathy is these people knew this was the end. the writing was on the wall for most of its existence. folks actively turned away from reason and nurtured a cult mentality when they promoted that space.
they could have invested that social energy elsewhere. mastodon genuinely did miss their absence.
baldur’s gate has really good writing but thankfully i could not care less about the worldbuilding of the forgotten realms so i don’t have to get fannish about it
do you think i will finally beat baldurs gate 3 before the new zelda comes out
yes i know Cohost did not actually aggregate RSS feeds, what it did was worse
if Cohost had features other than this feel free to let me know in the comments
anyway, if you used to be on Cohost and want a different site which is just a glorified RSS aggregator plus comment functionality, Dreamwidth is still up
@packetcat oh absolutely, it’s a major service you’re providing and i think you deserve everything good which comes your way
the reality tho is that helping people never makes that kind of money because helping people is not the goal of capitalism. and personally i find it inspiring that some people go and do that work anyway, even though they aren’t getting paid what they should, because those are the kinds of people who live lives of service and make community possible
but some people don’t see that inspiring picture. they just see the negative side, the capitalist exploitation, and throw up their hands and give up
@packetcat yeah but i mean, you’re not taking an annual tech salary for moderating and maintaining the space, you’re just paying bills
suburban-ass motherfuckers talking about Mastodon like it’s a bad thing our communities aren’t bankrolled by anonymous benefactors
when you’re trying to accomplish something that doesn’t make money, you don’t get the good fortune of getting paid for it
unless you’re Cohost for three years!
@kit i mean, three people were taking tech salaries to nominally work on it over the course of three years, but that doesn’t tell you how much work was actually done, or how much those three people could have accomplished in this space.
i mean, part of the problem with cohost is that it was never open source and could not take outside contributions. they very intentionally did limit how much energy could be spent on the platform. and people on cohost were mostly fine continuing using that closed-source solution until now instead of building an open-source one that could survive a budget shortfall, so?
a lot of MONEY went into cohost, but that’s a different matter
@kit how much effort actually did go into sustaining cohost?
S·P·D·X versions their R·D·F vocabulary?? 😬
fedi needs more minecraft servers
everything i’ve heard from Northwestern is that they’re a great place to work and they’re in Evanston!! all my folks love Evanston!!
why did they sign up for a grant to bring AI into libraries tho!!
“Northwestern is hiring” oh shit, Northwestern is great, i better send this link to all my folks
“to help us build best-in-class AI driven, opensource discovery and metadata description applications” 😬😬😬😬😬
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- Delinquent (BREAKpoint 98a) by Megumi Mizutani
Owner
Administrator / Public Relations for GlitchCat. Not actually glitchy, nor a cat. I wrote the rules for this instance.
“Constitutionally incapable of not going hard” — @aescling
“Fedi Cassandra” – @Satsuma
I HAVE EXPERIENCE IN THINGS. YOU CAN JUST @ ME.
I work for a library but I post about Zelda fanfiction.
For the time being, this is mostly a mirror of <https://status.ladys.computer/>. Want to get in touch? E·mail me!
Joined Sep 2021
